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Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 2
Downloading Oracle VM 3.4.................................................................................................................... 2
Installation of Oracle VM 3.2 Server ....................................................................................................... 5
Network Setup......................................................................................................................................... 8
Installation of Oracle VM Manager 3.2 ................................................................................................. 15
Storage Connection and Attachment Tips ............................................................................................ 19
Links ....................................................................................................................................................... 20
Introduction
Bare minimum screenshots are used, that means just the required screenshot was taken to
keep the article short
Step by step installation process to install VMware Oracle VM 3.2 Server/Hypervisor on
Oracle Virtual Box 5 (Oracle VM 3.4 is the latest)
You need to have a minimum of 10 GB RAM, 50 to 100 GB disk space, 4 or more CPUs of a
minimum speed of 2 Ghz to play around (Installing Oracle VM Server and creating 2 or 3
Servers only)
Note: Even with a memory of 2 GB plus you can install Oracle VM 3.2 Server, but you cant
install virtual machines on top of Oracle VM Server
Note: Oracle VM Manager needs some more memory. The recommended is some 5 plus Gb
RAM, which installs MySQL database, Weblogic etc.
This Hypervisor is actually a bare metal installation. In case you do not have separate
dedicated machine, and want to explore then follow the steps (install Oracle Virtual Box on
your PC)
This article uses the Oracle Virtual Box Network for assigning Static IP and playing around to
get an overview of Oracle VM Server and Oracle VM Manger environment
Downloading the Oracle VM 3 related products on Oracle. In this case the Oracle VM 3.4 is
shown below
You can safely ignore Agent for SPARC, but you can install it
Note: During the download, the Oracle VM Server ISO will be downloaded with Vxxxxx, which
can cause confusion which is what. So, do have a check on this. In my case I simply added
OracleVM-3.4-Server to the end of the ISO for clarity, as, Vxxxx-OracleVMServer-3.4 and
saved the ISO
The Drivers for Windows is to not 3.4. It says we got to install a patch (see the following
screenshot)
On the Oracle Website you can do cross check for the latest version, release and update
(Click on OTN and navigate)
Screenshot for Windows Drivers. If you do not have a MOS account, you cant download it
Creating a virtual machine on Virtual box, below are the settings performed by me
Creating some test virtual machines on top of Oracle VM Server requires some good amount
of memory
In my case 10 GB RAM was allocated (Note: Even with a memory of 2 GB plus you can install,
but you cant install virtual machines on top of Oracle VM Server)
Leave the default size, as it is of type Dynamically allocated (Note: you will get error if you
allocate less disk space because Swap size etc. will be allocated by Installer)
Network Setup
Save all the above settings by clicking on OK and Start the VM on Oracle Virtual Box
Do not forget to click on skip. If you press OK it will take more time
This disk does not have any previous data, so it is safe to select remove all partitions etc.
We allocated 8 GB hard disk so it is completely allocated to Oracle VM Server / Hypervisor
Type the password and press the TAB key to jump to the second row
Note: That was for the Oracle VM Agent. Because this is a test system, you can assign the
same password to the Agent and Root. Below is the Root password
Enter the root password to login. You can verify what was installed
You can use the INIT 0command to shut down the VM Server
https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/oracle-db-11gr2-installation-on-oracle-linux-6
https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/oracle-linux-6-installation
Attach the ISO disk to the OS and navigate to media or CDROM that you have set up for
mounting Media devices. In my case it was a default directory
The document says to run the runinstaller.sh to install Oracle VM Manager, which throws
an error actually
Do not run the runinstaller.sh, but run the createOracle.sh first which will set up the
environment for Oracle VM Manager.
5. Many experts had indeed provided articles about UDEV rules etc for such issues, one of the link
from an Oracle expert is noteworthy
https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/udev-scsi-rules-configuration-in-oracle-linux
Also see the section "Create Shared Disks" on the below link
https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/oracle-db-11gr2-rac-installation-on-oracle-linux-6-usingvirtualbox#create_shared_disks
Links
https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/oracle-db-11gr2-installation-on-oracle-linux-6
https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/oracle-linux-6-installation
Oracle VM 3.2 Documentation
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35328_01/
Note: Oracle 3.4 documentation is not completely similar to 3.2. You got to refer Oracle 3.4 VM
documentation if you work with 3.4
Below is Oracle 3.4 VM documentation:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/